BOOKS THE PPQ THINKS YOU HAVEN’T READ Have you read more than 5 of these books? The PPQ believes most people will have read only 5 of the 95 books here, listed in no particular order of importance. 1. The Golden Ass, Apuleis 2. Don Quixote, Cervantes 3. The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevski 4. Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Shakespeare 5. The Road, Cormac McCarthy 6. Complete Stories, Edgar Allen Poe 7. Anna Karenina, Tolstoi 8. Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, Philip K Dick 9. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola 10. Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor 11. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson 11. Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow 12. The Arabian Knights 13. Candide, Voltaire 14. Tortilla Flat, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck 15. Silence, Shusaku Endo 16. The Colour From Outer Space, The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, HP Lovecraft 17. Moby Dick, Melville 18. The New Testament 19. Personal Memoirs of US Grant 20. The Plague, Albert Camus 21. Gargantua & Pantagruel, Rabelais 22. Metamorpheses, Ovid 23. Gilgamesh 29. Cousin Bette, Balzac 30. Against a Dark Background, Iain M Banks 31. Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, RL Stevenson 32. Lord of Light, Isle of the Dead, Zelazny 33. He She and It, Piercy 34. I am Legend, Matheson 35. The Phantom Tollbooth, Juster 36. A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole 37. True Grit, Portis 38. Babel-17, Delany 39. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain 40. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 41. Hunger, Pan, Knut Hamsun 42. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway 43. Sea of Fertility, Mishima 44. 334, Disch 45. The Dancers at the End of Time, Moorcock 46. Meridian, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Walker 47. The Once and Future King, White 48. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Heinlein 49. Labyrinths, The Book of Imaginary Beings, Borges 50. Black Elk Speaks 51. Dune, Herbert 52. War with the Newts, Capek 53. Roadside Picnic, Strugatskis 54. Odysseus, Homer 55. Farewell My Lovely, Chandler 56. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Rilke 57. The Stars My Destination, Bester 58. Dracula, Stoker 59. V, Pynchon 60. God Bless You, Mr Rosewater, Vonnegut 61. The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount, Calvino 62. 40 Stories (personal note: Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby* is the greatest short story of all time), Barthelme 63. Hopscotch, Cortazar 64. Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez 65. Light in August, The Snopes Trilogy, Faulkner 66. The Martian Chronicles, October Country, Bradbury 67. Complete Stories, Kafka 68. The Enormous Room, cummings 69. The Rainbow, Apocalypse, Lawrence 70. Watt, Beckett 71. Dr Faustus, Marlowe 72. Frankenstein, Shelley 73. Norstrilia, Cordwainer Smith 74. 1984, Orwell 75. We, Zamiatin 76. I, Claudius, Claudius the God, Graves 77. The Magic Christian, Blue Movie, Southern 78. War of the Worlds, Invisible Man, Wells 79. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Verne 80. The Prophetic Books, Blake 81. My Last Sigh, Bunuel 82. Childhood’s End, Rendezvous with Rama, Clarke 83. Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro 84. The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, Berrigan 85. Neuromancer, Gibson 86. The Thin Man, Continental Op Stories, Hammett 87. The Wind in the Willows, Grahame 88. Kraken, Mieville 89. City of Glass, Auster 90. The Man Who Was Thursday, Chesterton 91. Fiasco. Solaris, Stanislaw Lem 92. Will You Please Be Quiet Please, Carver 93. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Murakami 94. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce 95. Tower of Glass, Silverberg * web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/gone.too.far
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